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Belesprit

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(N.) a highly intelligent cultivated person

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Vacillate

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(V.) to way from one side to the other, of action or opinion

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Paucity

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(N.) few, smallness of a #, scarcity

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Juxtapose

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(V.) to place side-by-side

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Ingle

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(N.) a fireplace

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Persnickety

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(N.) fussy about small details; fastidious

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Vapid

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(Adj.). Lack of liveliness/ taste/zest/interested/flavor; flat, dull

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Schlock

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(Adj.) of inferior quality, cheap or shoddy

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Impecunious

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(Adj.) lacking money, penniless

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Obstreperous

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(Adj) marked by unruly noise, boisterous

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Pleonasm

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use of more worse than needed to express an idea, redundancy

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Denigrate

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To attach character or reputation, speak ill of; defame

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Kerfuffle

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Disturbance, fuss

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Bumpkin

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awkward, unsophisticated person

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ILK

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Sort; type; or kind

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Kvetch

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To complain persistently, a chronic whining, a complainer

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Enmity

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Deep-seater, often mutual hate

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Absquatulate

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To depart in a hurry, abscond

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Pariah

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Outcast

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Winsome

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Generally pleasing, cheerful

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Caprice

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An Impulsive notion

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Pander

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To cater to others’ weaknesses

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Nolens Volens

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Whether willing or unwilling

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Quondom

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That once was, former

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Mawkish

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Excessively sentimental

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Stoic

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One’s seemingly indifferent or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain, impassive

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Limpid

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Easily intelligible; clear

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Jink

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To make a quick, evasive turn

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Ebullience

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Zestful, enthusiasm

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Ramekin

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Small dish used for baking & serving

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Impugn

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To attach as false or questionable, challenge in argument

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Sycophant

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A servile self seeks who tries to win favors by flattering; influential people

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Nepotism

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Favoritism shown or patronage, granted to relatives, as in business

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Diffident

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Lack of self-confidence; shy, it is

Reserved in manner

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Brusque

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Discourteously blunt; court, abrupt in manner or speech

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Accerbity

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Sourness or acid news of taste, character, or love

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Volitant

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Capable of fling or moving about rapidly

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Acquiesce

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To consent or comply passively or w/out protest

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Dross

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Waste or impure waste

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Retral

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Situated at, located close to or directly toward back; reverse, backward

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Reticent

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Inclined to keep one’s thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to one’s self, reluctant, reserved in style; unwilling

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Wantonly

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unjustifiably, recklessly

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Contritely

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Humbly; w/ remove & regret

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Manifestly

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Plainly, in a new way that is understood

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Opulent

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Processing of exhibits great wealth; rich abundance, luxuriant characteristic

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Cohort

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A group or band of people

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Utterly

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Fully, to a total extent

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Decorously

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Politely, of proper manners

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Indubitably

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W/out question or doubt

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Flummox

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Mentally incompetent

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Malenendu

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A misunderstanding

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Obsequiously

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Like a servant; obediently

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Inscrutably

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Mysteriously in an incomprehensible way

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Rondomontade

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Pretentious, to boast, to brag

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Penultimate

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Next to last

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Vex

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To annoy or bother or bring to distress

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Quiddity

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The real azure of a thing; the essence

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Blandish

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To coax by flattery

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Occiput

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Back part of head & skull

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Namby-pamby

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Weak, insipid, or sentimental

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Phlegmatic

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Having a calm, sluggish term permanent, unemotional

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Jussive

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A word, mood or form to express command

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Gracile

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Grateful

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Highfalutin

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Pompous or pretentious

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Spurious

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Lack of authenticity, not genuine, false

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Equanimity

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Quality of being calm & even-tempered, composure

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Loft

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Likely to spring back to original thickness after being compressed (elastic-like)

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Brazen

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Rudely bold, insolent & having a harsh and loud sound

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Pince-nez

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Eyeglasses clipped to the nose by a spring

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Prosaic

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Dull, unimaginative; everyday, ordinary

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Deduce

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Infer from a general principle

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Forestall

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Exclude, hinder or to obstruct

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Recalcitrance

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Stubbornly resistance to authority

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Farce

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An empty show, mockery

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Sluice

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Artificial passage for H20 fit with a valve to make even flow

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Augured

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Foretell

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Iota

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Very small amount, 9th letter of Greek alphabet

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Mantra

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A sacred formula used as prayer or incantation

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Visceral

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Intensely emotional

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Cruciverbalist

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A constructor of crosswords; an enthusiast of word games

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Lethargy

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State of inactivity; state of unconsciousness,s, resemble deep sleep

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Diurnal

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Active/occur at day NOT night; relate or occur w/in 24 hour period

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Hypo-nasty

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An upward bending of leaves or other plants; results from growth or lower side

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Brooding

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To hatch eggs; to think or worry anxiously

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Modicum

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A small amount

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Sessile

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Permanently attached or fixed NOT free moving

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Disingenuous

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Insincere, not straight-forward; pretend to be unaware; unsophisticated; faxu-Naif

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Acumen

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Quickness, accuracy or keenness of judgement or insight

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Haughty

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Condescendingly proud

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Poignant

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Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings, affecting

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Matriculate

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Student admitted into a college or university

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Roman a clef

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A novel of curtail persons, placed, or events to depict in fictional guise

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Depauperate

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Arrested in growth/development

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Duplicitous

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Deliberate deceptive as in behavior or speech

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Precipice

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Extremely steep or an overhanging cliff

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Intrinsic

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Belonging to simple nature of a thing; inherent

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Felt ability

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Ability of fibers to mat together

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Compressibility

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Resistance to crushing (fabric/material)

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Wicking

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Ability of a fiber to transfer moisture along its surface

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Translucence

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Ability of a fiber or yarn to let light pass through the structure

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Denier

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Describe yarn or fiber size and is defined as weight for 9000 meters of fiber

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Stolid

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Having or revealing little emotion, sensitlibyt; impassive

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Philoprogentitive

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Of or relating to love of children

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Trenchant

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Forceful, effective & vigorous

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Modulus

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Resistance to stress, strain, to which a fiber is exposed to

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Unequivocal

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Conclusively, w/out condition

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Parsimonious

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Excessively sparing or frugal

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Intumesce

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To swell, expand, or enlarge; to bubble up from heat

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Pliant

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Easily bent, flexed or modified to fit conditions

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Pyknic

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Have short, stalking physique

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Haimish

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Warm & comfy; homey; folksy

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Clandestine

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Kept or done in secret

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Fervid

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No imagination, spirit; dull

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Prosaic

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Mark by great passion or zeal; extremely hot

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Maleficence

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Doing of evil or harm, mischief, harmful or evil nature/quality

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Demitasse

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Small cup to serve coffee

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Assent

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Deceptively attractive

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Specious

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Carefree and light-hearted

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Blithe

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To agree to a proposal

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Pittance

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A very small amount

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Inerrant

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Having no errors

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Swivet

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Extreme distress or discomposure

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Penury

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  1. Courageously noble in mind

2. Forgiving, eschewing resentment or revenge, unselfish

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Chicanery

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A trick, deception by trickery

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Ignominiously

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Dishonorably; w/ disgrace

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Fugacious

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Passing away quickly, evanescent, withering or drop off early

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Uxorial

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Of a wife, regarded as befitting a wife

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Brio

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Vigor, vivacity

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Verisimilitude

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The quality f appearing to be true/real, something has appearance of being true

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Latent

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Present or potential but not evident

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Putative

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Generally regarded as such

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Capacious

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Able to hold a large #, spacious, or roomy

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Erudition

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Shaped like a kidney

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Reniform

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Deep, extensive learning

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Whet

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To stimulate/sharpen

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Veritable

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Real, authentic, genuine

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Veracity

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Truthfulness

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Vexation

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Annoyance, irrititatoni on

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Urbane

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Elegant, refined

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Verisimilitude

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Appear true or real

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Unfeigned

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Not false, genuine

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Ubiquitous

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Wide-spread

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Vituperative

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To use harsh language, abuse

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Voracious

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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity, ravenous

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Vitiate

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To decrease in value

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous

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Vacillate

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Sway (waiver) opinion one side to the other

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Venal

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Able to be bought/bribed

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Truculent

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Fierce, eager to fight

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Trenchant

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Keen

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Tout

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To publicly praise or promote

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Torrid

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Passionate, hurried

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Torpid

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Dormant, slug, lethargic

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Toady

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Flatter, ‘yes-man/ma’am

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Timorous

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Timid, fearful

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Tawdry

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Cheap, tacky, indecent

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Terse

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Brief, cons ice in working

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Taciturn

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Not talkative, silent

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Synthesis

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Combo of parts to make a whole

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Surfeit

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Overindulgence; to increase feed or Supply excess

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Sycophant

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Someone tried please for own’s gain

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Supplicant

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Asking humbly

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Stoic

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Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure of pain, steadfast

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Spurious

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Lacking authenticity or validity; false counterfeit

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Sordid

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Characterized by filth, grime or squalor.

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Specious

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Seeming true but actually false, misleadingly attractive

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Sophomoric

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Exhibiting immaturity, lack of judgement, pretentious

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Supine

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Inactive, submissive

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Supercilious

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Arrogant, haughty

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Succinct

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Brief, concise

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Stolid

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Calm, impressive

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Simper

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To smirk, to say something w/ a silly, coy smile

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Since cure

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Position requiring little or no work & usually providing an income

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Salutary

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Remedial, wholesome, cause improvement

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Sanctimony

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Self-righteousness, pretended,

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Salacious

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Appealing to or causing sexual desire

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Sagacious

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Having sound judgment, perceptive wise

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Stanch

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To stop flow of a fluid; static

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Spendthrift

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One spends waste fully

180
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Solicitous

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Eager

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Solder

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Fuse/join

182
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Reverent

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Marked by feeling or expressing a feeling of profound awe & respect

183
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Repudiate

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To refuse to have anything to do w/ wisdom

184
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Renege

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To fail to honor a commitment, go back on a promise

185
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Relegate

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To forcibly assign, esp. To a lower place or position

186
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Redolent

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Fragrant, suggestive or evocative

187
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Reconnoiter

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To engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of

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Sodden

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Dull, soaked

189
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Sinuous

A

Curving devious

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Sedulous

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Persistent, diligent, hard-working

191
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Saturnine

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Gloomy, dark, morose

192
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Scurvy

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Despicable

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Recondite

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Hidden , concealed difficult to understand, obscure

194
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Recalcitrant

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Obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficulty to manage

195
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Rebus

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Riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like words

196
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Rapacious

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Voracious greedy, plundering

197
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Rancorous

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Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment

198
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Quotidian

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Re/occurring daily commonplace

199
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Satiate

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To overindulge, satisfy to excess

200
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Sanguine

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Cheerful, optimistic, confident

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Salubrious

A

Promoting health

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Salient

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Prominent, highly relevant

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Risible

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Hilarious, provoke laughter

204
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Pungent

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Characterized by a strong,s harp smell or taste, penetrating to the point

205
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Pundit

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An authority on a subject, one who gives opinions

206
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Propensity

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A natural inclination or tendency

207
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Propinquinty

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Nearness in Time or place, affinity or nature, kinship

208
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Prodigious

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Abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary

209
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Repine

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Long for, to feel discontent

210
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Rent

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Pierced by a sound

211
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Remonstrate

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To protest/object

212
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Regale

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To delight, feast, entertain

213
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Refute

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To disapprove, successfully argue against

214
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Recumbent

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Learning, resting, prone

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Redoubtable

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Worthy of honor, awe-inspiring

216
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Prodigal

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Recklessly wasteful, profuse lavish, extravagant

217
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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth, mislead

218
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Precipitate

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Acting w/ excessive haste or impulsive

219
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Platitude

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A superficial or trite remark, esp. One offered as meaningful

220
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Rarefy

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To become thin, refine, less dense

221
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Rail

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To complain, bitterly

222
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Ramify

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Branch out, to sub/divide

223
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Quiescence

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Quality of being motionless, at rest

224
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Querulous

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Quarrelsome

225
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Qualms

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Causes for hesitancy

226
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Quail

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Lose courage

227
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Piquant

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Agreeably pungent, Spicy, stimulating

228
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Pine

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To yearn intensely, to languish , to lose vigor

229
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Peremptory

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Admitting of no contradiction, put an end to further debate

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Pedestrian

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Common place, trite, unremarkable

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Paragon

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Smoothing regarded as a model of excellence or perfection in some way

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Pusillanimous

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Cowardly, craven

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Provident

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Frugal, looking into the future

234
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Puerile

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Childish, immature

235
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Pugnacious

A

Belligerent

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Proscribe

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To outlaw/prohibit

237
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Propitious

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Favorable, auspicious

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Paradox

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Contraction; a seemingly self-contradictory statement that seems true nonetheless

239
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Paradigm

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Something serves as a model

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Palliate

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To make something appear less serious

241
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Obeisance

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Gesture identity deference (I.e. Bow)

242
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Prolix

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Verbose

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Profuse

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Extravagant

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Profligate

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Highly wasteful, recklessly extravagant

245
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Pristine

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Pure, clean, uncorrupted

246
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Preen

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To primp

247
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Predilection

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Preference

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Nonplussed

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Baffled in a quandary at at loss for what to say, do or think

249
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Neologism

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A new word, expression or usage the creation or use of new words

250
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Nebulous

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Vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form

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Nascent

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Coming into being, in early development stages

252
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Mollify

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To calm or soother, reduce in emotional intensity

253
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Prate

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Chatter, babble

254
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Pragmatic

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Practical not idealistic

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Plastic

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Not rigid, mold able

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Nonplussed

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Baffled in a quandary at at loss for what to say, do or think

257
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Militate

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To have weight or beefing on to argue (against)

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Mercurial

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Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

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Maverick

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An independent individual who does not go along w/ a group or party

260
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Malevolent

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Having or showing, often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred

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Pirate

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To use or reproduce illegally

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Pillory

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To punish, hold up to public scorn

263
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Picaresque

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Involving clever adventures or rogues

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Mince

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Speak affectedly or too carefully, take tiny steps, to tip-toe

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Militate

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To have weight or bearing, to guess against

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Mercurial

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Characterized by rapid & unpredictable change in mood

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. In forgiving

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Lumber

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To move heavily & clumsily or w/ a rumbling sound

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inscrutable

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Incapable of being discovered or understood, mysterious

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Incipient

A

Begin become into being

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Philanthropic

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Benevolent, humanitarian

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Petulant

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Irritable

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Perspicacious

A

Acutely, perceptive

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Penchant

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A liking

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Perfunctory

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Done without care or interest

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Impute

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To attribute to a cause or source

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Implacable

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Not capable of being appeased or significantly change

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Imperturbable

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Marked by extreme calm

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Imperious

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Commanding, masterful, arrogant

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Inconclast

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One who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

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Idolatrous

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Given to intense or excessive devotion to something

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Penurious

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Thrift

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Parry

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Evade or ward off

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Pedantic

A

Unimaginative

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Panegyric

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Formal expression or praise

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Paean

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Song of thanksgiving

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Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech

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Hackneyed

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Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

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Forestall

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To act in a way of hinder, exclude, or preventive action

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Ford

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To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Ostensible

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Appearing as such

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Onerous

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Troubling, burdensome

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Obviate

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Make unnecessary

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace, contempt, scorn

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Odious

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Hateful, increase strong feelings of hate

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Occult

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Hidden, concealed

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Obstreperous

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Noisy, loudly stubborn

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction, use long speech to delay legislative action

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Fallacy

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An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

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Expatiate

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Discuss or write about at length, to range freely

301
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Obfuscate

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To make confused

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Noxious

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Harmful, injurious

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Nostrum

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Cure-all, placebo

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Equivocate

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To sue ambiguous language w/ a deceptive intent

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, obscure, difficulty to understand

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Endemic

A

Related to people in particular region

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Multifarious

A

Greatly diversified

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Misogynist

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One how hate women

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Misanthrope

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One who hates people

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Minatory

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Menacing, threatening

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Encomium

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Glowing and enthusiastic praise

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Emollient

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Soothing esp to the skiing, making less harsh

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Efficacy

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The ability to make an intended result

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Ebullience

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The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts & feelings

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Dogmatic

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Arrogantly assertive of principles which often cannot be provided, stubbornly opinionated.

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Mendacity

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Condition of being dishonest

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Maunder

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Mutter, talk aimlessly

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Dilettante

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One w/ an amateurish or superficial interest in arts and branch of knowledge

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Digress

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Start from the point, go off on a tangent

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Denouement

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Outcome or a solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Decorum

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Politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior

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Limpid

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Serene, clear, and simple

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loquacious

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Extremely talkative

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Laconic

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Use few words, terse

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Lachrymose

A

Show sorrow, cause tears

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Cynicism

A

An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

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Catalyst

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A substance that accelerates rate of a chemical reaction w/out itself changing, a person or thing that causes change

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Causality

A

The relationship between cause & effect

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Jocose

A

Humorous

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Jibe

A

To agree with

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Jejune

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Childish, uninteresting

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Irascible

A

Easily angered, outbursts

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Inveigh

Inveigle

A

To attach verbally denounce

To obtain by deception

334
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Inundate

A

To flood, to overwhelm

335
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Capricious

A

Inclined to change one’s mind, impulsively, erratic, unpredictable

336
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Belie

A

To give a false impression of, to misrepresent

337
Q

Intractable

A

Stubborn, obstinate

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Intrepid

A

Steadfast, courageous

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Intransigent

A

Refusing to compromise

340
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Insipid

A

Without taste or flavor, dull

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Insular

A

Narrow minded

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Interdict

A

To ban, prohibit

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Axiom

A

An universally recognized principle, a generally accepted or coming saying

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Asperity

A

Severity, rigor; roughness, harshness

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Approbation

A

An expression or approval or praise

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Innocuous

A

Harmless, cause no damage

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Ineluctable

A

Certain, inevitable

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Indolent

A

Lazy, listless, torpid

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Anomaly

A

Deviation from the normal order, forum, or rule; abnormality

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Anachronism

A

Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

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Ambivalence

A

The quality of having opposing ideas or feelings

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Impugn

A

To censure

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Impudent

A

Shamelessly bold

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Immutable

A

Not capable of change

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Imbroglio

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Difficult/embarrassing situations

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Ignominious

A

Shameful, disgraceful

357
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Aggrandize

A

To increase in intensity, power or prestige to make appear greater

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Hubris

A

Arrogant pride

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Harrow

A

To create stress

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Guile

Guileless

A

Trickery, cunning

Naive, free from guilt

361
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Beguile

A

To charm

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Grouse

A

To complain or grumble

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Glib

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Nonchalant, superficial, lack in depth

364
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Germane

A

Relevant to subject at hand

365
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Garrulous

A

Talking too much

366
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Gauche

A

Crude, awkward, tasteless

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Froward

A

Not yield, stubbornly disobedient

368
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Factious

A

Rebellious, unruly

369
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Fortuitous

A

Happening by chance

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Forbearance

A

Patience, willingness to wait

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Flourid

A

Flushed w/ hue, ornate

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Fetid

A

To have a bad smell

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Fervent

A

Zealous, highly emotional

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Feckless

A

Irresponsible, ineffectual

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Fawn

A

To flatter, praise excessively

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Extirpate

A

To destroy, cut out

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Extemporaneous

A

Done w/out prep’; improvised

378
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Extant

A

Existing, not destroyed or lost

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Expurgate

A

Purify, to remove obscenity

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Exculpate

A

To clear of blame, exonerate

381
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Evanescent

A

Vanishing

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Erudite

A

Very learned, scholarly

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Equable

A

Level, undisturbed

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Edifying

A

Enlightening, informative

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Effontery

A

Presumptuousness, extreme boldness

386
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Distrait

A

Absent-mindedness, distracted

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Dissonance

A

Lack of harmony; conflict

388
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Disparate

A

Distinct or dissimilar

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Discordant

A

Conflicting

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Din

A

A long sustained noise

391
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Diffident

A

Shy, lack of self-confidence

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Dilatory

A

Causing delay, procrastinate

393
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Didactic

A

Intended to teach/instruct

394
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Derision

A

Scorn, ridicule

395
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Demur

A

To question or oppose

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Credulous

A

Gullible

397
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Cozen

A

Hoodwink to deceive

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Countenance

A

To approve or tolerate

399
Q

Corrigible

A

Correctable, repairable

400
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Contrite

A

Regretful, seeking forgiveness

401
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Contentious

A

Argumentative

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Cogent

A

Convincing

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Chimera

A

An illusion

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Chicanery

A

Trickery

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Caustic

A

Causing corrosion

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Castigation

A

Severe criticism or punishment

407
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Cardinal

A

Primary of basic importance

408
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Burnish

A

To polish, rub, to shine

409
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Burgeon

A

To grow rapidly to flourish

410
Q

Brook

A

Tolerate, endure

411
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Bombastic

A

Pompous,grandiloquent

412
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Blithe

A

Carefree, Merry

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Blandish

A

To coax w/ flattery

414
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Aver

A

To confirm, state of fact

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Avariace

A

Greed, especially for wealth

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Austere

A

Severely simple w/out adornment, bare

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Auspicious

A

Favorable, successful, prosperous

418
Q

Auspice

A

Protection or support

419
Q

August

A

Majestic, venerable

420
Q

Assiduous

A

Diligent, hard-working

421
Q

Arcane

A

Mysterious, esoteric

422
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Arduous

A

Strenuous, lost of effort neede

423
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Arabesque

A

Complex, ornate design

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Apogee

A

Zenith, high established point

425
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Apathy

A

Lack of interest or feeling

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Anodyne

A

Soothing

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Ameliorate

A

To make better or more tolerable

428
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Alacrity

A

Eager

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Alchemy

A

A magical transformation

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Ambiguity

A

Uncertainty in meaning

431
Q

Acumen

A

Quick, keen, accurate insight

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Acerbic

A

Have a sour/bitter taste

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Accretion

A

Growth, building up

434
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Abscond

A

To steal off and hide

435
Q

Abscission

A

Cut off, removing act

436
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Abjure

A

To avoid

437
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Abrogate

A

Put down; to abolish

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Aberrant

A

Deviating from the norm

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